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West Brunswick’s varsity girls’ basketball squad clinched its first winning season since 2009-10 two weeks ago and reached the 15-win plateau in its regular-season finale Feb. 8 in Boiling Spring Lakes.

The Lady Trojans defeated South Brunswick 48-3 in each team’s final Mideastern Conference game before the league tournament was scheduled to begin Tuesday, Feb. 13, at the Dinah E. Gore Fitness & Aquatics Center on the campus of Brunswick Community College.

Sports editor Sam Hickman's photos from last week's 3A East Regional wrestling tournament in Shallotte. Four Brunswick County wrestlers secured regional championships and 13 grapplers claimed berths to this week's state tournament in Greensboro.

WHITEVILLE — Two of the three people charged in the 2015 killing of a Leland woman in a plot to steal her money and car each were sentenced to decades in prison Wednesday.

Robeson County Superior Court Judge Robert Floyd sentenced Michael Jesse Williams, 33, and Kayla Turner, 21, separately for their roles in the death of Alicia Deans, a 26-year old mother of two, on April 28, 2015.

Sheriff John W. Ingram V announced a team of assessors from the Commission of Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA) will arrive in Brunswick County on Monday, March 5. The team will examine all aspects of the sheriff’s office’s policy and procedures, management, operations and support services to verify it meets the commission’s standards.

Several road and right-of-way projects in Sunset Beach may result in single lane closures and intermittent traffic delays during construction, according to a town news release. All start dates and completion dates are weather dependent. Permitted project plans will online at sunsetbeach.nc.gov.

Those interested in adopting or sponsoring a highway now have a user-friendly tool that shows routes available for cleanup in all 100 North Carolina counties thanks to a new litter management website, https://apps.ncdot.gov/LM, with an interactive map.

The N.C. Department of Transportation’s Roadside Environmental Unit website helps current volunteers see where their assigned roadways are, markets the Sponsor-A-Highway program, and makes it easier for volunteers to report the amount of litter collected.

Taxpayers can retrieve their paid 2017 vehicle property tax receipts online from the N.C. Division of Motor Vehicles to use when they file this year’s income tax returns. Vehicle owners can view and print their vehicle property tax receipts through the MyDMV web portal.